Meaning of apocrine | Babel Free

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Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.

not-comparable

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“They observed that apocrine metaplasia often was present⟳ in breasts with other "noncancerous proliferative lesions," but they found no significant difference in the frequency of apocrine metaplasia between "cancerous and noncancerous breasts."”

“Lobular cysts as well as micro- and macrocysts are very often lined to a variable extent by apocrine epithelium. Pathologists call⟳ this condition apocrine metaplasia, meaning a transformation of the normal epithelial cells into sweat-gland-like cells similar to those found in the apocrine glands of the vulva, eyelid, and external auditory canal.”

“Apocrine glands are distributed throughout the body but are present⟳ in greatest abundance in the axilla, followed by the anogenital region.”

“Two appreciate what happened, note⟳ that sweat⟳ glands come⟳ in two varieties, apocrine and eccrine.”

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